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Hey, my first ‘come back’ recipe! Should have posted it earlier, but… have been sick. This stupid winter cold has caught me up, and lasted forever. So, take care, everyone, it is really nasty!! If you are having fever, try some Chinese cold remedy, actually, I have a post here which I wrote long time [...]

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I am so sorry, I didn’t realize that it has been almost two weeks now since I posted last time. Again, ‘laziness’ — would you accept? :)) Another excuse is I have been busy with migrating the blog to the new hosting space. — So what do you think about the new ‘look’? It is [...]

Sorry, this recipe should have been posted yesterday, but yesterday I … :)) Yesterday, the weather was surprisingly good in Oxford. In the afternoon, the sun was shining. I could feel the mild wind blowing in my face, and when I passed by a building with a nice beautiful front garden, the smell of jasmine [...]

As I said yesterday, tomorrow will be Spring Day in Chinese calendar — it means that spring is coming eventually, and hope that this coldness is so over! — How good! :)) As a celebration for the upcoming spring, in China, we normally have special food —- spring pancake. It is just a very very [...]

> Chinese stir fried garlic bolt with tofu A ‘late night’ recipe. :))) Well, at least, it is late over here in England. And I only just started writing today’s post. What have I been doing the whole day? I blame time passes too fast. A bit reading, a bit housework, a bit writing, a [...]

Chinese bitter gourd omelette We are really starting tasting winter now — it is getting cold. My parents told me that back in my hometown, they are getting heavy snow, the first heavy snow for this winter. On the way back from city centre this afternoon, I even wished if I had a pair [...]

Chinese stir fried corn and pine nuts 松仁玉米 It sounds funny, I have never been a big fan of sweet corn, but I like it, like to hold it, like to smell it after being grilled. Well, I can’t really have much corn anyway, because my stomach sometimes aches after having it. But, I [...]

Stir fried Chinese prawns 清炒虾仁 As if spring came around to Edinburgh again today, the only sign of autumn is the beautiful ‘turning-red’ leaves. It is a nice and strange feeling to experience two seasons at the same time… Standing on top of the ‘Arthur’s seat’ in Holyrood park, as if we are close to [...]

If the previous tofu salad (liang cai) dish was a ‘super’ quick fix, this one can only be ‘medium’ quick fix. :)) Say around 15 minutes? Chinese “stews” The original version — I mean the very original version,:) is a typical Northeast dish, and the method of making is called ‘Dun’ in Chinese, which is [...]